Ryan Bennett

It means absolutely nothing but I’ve just seen him in Waltham heading for Cheapside. #spotted

Quoted from pontoonlew

You don’t come 2nd in Ska Faces famous ITK League purely by luck Chaos

😂👍

Is he still training with us? Been a couple of months if so at this point.

Quoted from gtfc98

Is he still training with us? Been a couple of months if so at this point.

Training, while receiving offers from Championship clubs.
He won't be signing for us, or the clubs he currently has offers from, due to distance from here.

Quoted from coddy60

Training, while receiving offers from Championship clubs.
He won't be signing for us, or the clubs he currently has offers from, due to distance from here.

So which clubs are they?

Quoted from coddy60

Training, while receiving offers from Championship clubs.
He won't be signing for us, or the clubs he currently has offers from, due to distance from here.

There’s no place closer to here than here.

In all honesty I expected this to be sorted by now.  

From our point of view, there comes a point where having a player training with the squad but not signing becomes a bit like a bad smell.  I'm in no way questioning Bennett's attitude or what Hurst has said about him being a good learning point and example for others.  But if he's ticking over here, his focus is different from that of the rest of the set-up.

Equally so for Bennett, the longer he's out of action the less his chances are of getting a club snapping him up.  When was the last time a club signed a player after so long without a club?  I mean, not taking into account January 2021 when our enforced transfer policy was 'Has played before, will play for cheap'.  

If Bennett wants to stay local and play still, his options are incredibly limited to say the least.   Within a 90 minute commute from the area (and I'm being generous that he'll want to do that much travelling) he's got Hull, Lincoln, Doncaster, Rotherham, Sheffield clubs and Barnsley.  Maybe at an absolute push Mansfield.  There's some on there that are debatable if you could do it in that time-frame whilst travelling at rush hour.

Sheff Utd aren't going to be interested.  I think it's debatable that Barnsley and Sheffield Weds would be interested either.  League One clubs with aspirations to get into the Championship and establish themselves there.  Hull is a maybe, all depends on who gets the job there.  Liam Rosenior would probably be more favourable to an experienced English defender than someone who's managed in the Turkish SuperLiga, but it depends on what mandate he's got.  From the outside looking in, I think their owner wants to flood the team with foreign superstars and not sure Bennett is the type of signing he wants to make.

Donny, maybe?  Mansfield?  Nah.

Quoted from diehardmariner

In all honesty I expected this to be sorted by now.  

From our point of view, there comes a point where having a player training with the squad but not signing becomes a bit like a bad smell.  I'm in no way questioning Bennett's attitude or what Hurst has said about him being a good learning point and example for others.  But if he's ticking over here, his focus is different from that of the rest of the set-up.

Equally so for Bennett, the longer he's out of action the less his chances are of getting a club snapping him up.  When was the last time a club signed a player after so long without a club?  I mean, not taking into account January 2021 when our enforced transfer policy was 'Has played before, will play for cheap'.  

If Bennett wants to stay local and play still, his options are incredibly limited to say the least.   Within a 90 minute commute from the area (and I'm being generous that he'll want to do that much travelling) he's got Hull, Lincoln, Doncaster, Rotherham, Sheffield clubs and Barnsley.  Maybe at an absolute push Mansfield.  There's some on there that are debatable if you could do it in that time-frame whilst travelling at rush hour.

Sheff Utd aren't going to be interested.  I think it's debatable that Barnsley and Sheffield Weds would be interested either.  League One clubs with aspirations to get into the Championship and establish themselves there.  Hull is a maybe, all depends on who gets the job there.  Liam Rosenior would probably be more favourable to an experienced English defender than someone who's managed in the Turkish SuperLiga, but it depends on what mandate he's got.  From the outside looking in, I think their owner wants to flood the team with foreign superstars and not sure Bennett is the type of signing he wants to make.

Donny, maybe?  Mansfield?  Nah.

If Donny or Mansfield were his only interested parties, he would've signed for us by now.

Quoted from 123614

So which clubs are they?

Ones too far away 🤷

Quoted from coddy60

Ones too far away 🤷

That comes across very Father Ted like